Anniversary Edition. Voted 'Author of the Year' at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007

The Selfish Gene

30th Anniversary edition

Richard Dawkins

Commemorative anniversary edition of this landmark work which powerfully encapsulates a new way of looking at living things - a gene's eye view of life.

The original edition was published 30 years ago - this book remains a classic work in the development of evolutionary thought, and its influence is undiminished today.

Contains a newly written introduction by Richard Dawkins, the original prefaces including Robert Trivers' 1976 foreword, and extracts from a selection of early reviews.

New to this Edition:

A new introduction by Richard Dawkins

Enlarged review section, with extracts from a range of early reviews, highlighting the book's importance and influence

Includes prefaces and forewords from previous editions

Anniversary Edition. Voted 'Author of the Year' at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007

The Selfish Gene

30th Anniversary edition

Richard Dawkins

Description

The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.

This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As relevant and influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought.

Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research.

Author Information

Anniversary Edition. Voted 'Author of the Year' at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007

The Selfish Gene

30th Anniversary edition

Richard Dawkins

Reviews and Awards

"Dawkins's first book, The Selfish Gene, was a smash hit... Best of all, Dawkins laid out this biology - some of it truly subtle - in stunningly lucid prose. (It is, in my view, the best work of popular science ever written.)" - H. Allen Orr, New York Review of Books

"The Selfish Gene is a classic." - Robin McKie, The Observer

"A genuine cultural landmark of our time." - The Independent

"Review from previous edition The sort of popular science writing that makes the reader feel like a genius." - New York Times